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Graham Sutherland OM (1903–1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (1926–2010) was one of the world's greatest operatic divas.
3 portraits in the collection
Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer, began his career in Melbourne radio in 1949.
2 portraits in the collection
Lorrie Graham (b. 1954), photojournalist, was given her first camera, a Kodak plastic brownie, at the age of eight.
20 portraits in the collection
Filmmaker and writer Rhys Graham has worked across a number of moving image forms.
1 portrait in the collection
The cyclist Lorian Graham (b. 1977) trained at the AIS between 2002 and 2005, and became Australia's National Road Cycling Champion in January 2005.
2 portraits in the collection
Graham Thorley (1921–1990) entered the Archibald Prize 23 times between 1940 and 1976, and in 1980 was one of the first Australian artists to visit Antarctica, where he painted a series of landscapes.
2 portraits in the collection
Clif Peir (b.1905) was a Sydney painter and teacher, who studied at the Julian Ashton School under Ashton and H.C.Gibbons.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter English was an RAAF photographer from the early 1950s onward, taking air and ground photographs in Australia and Malaya.
1 portrait in the collection
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) writer, spent her childhood in Sydney but left with her parents at the age of sixteen for South East Asia and New Zealand.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Bonynge AO CBE (b. 1930), conductor, won a scholarship to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music when he was twelve.
1 portrait in the collection
Norm Provan (1932-2021), footballer and coach, played junior rugby league for Sutherland and trialled unsuccessfully for Eastern Suburbs before being signed by the St George Dragons in 1951.
1 portrait in the collection
John Spooner (b. 1946), editorial cartoonist and illustrator, graduated in law before turning to political illustrating and cartooning in the early 1970s.
3 portraits in the collection
Peter Schipperheyn (b. 1955), Melbourne-based sculptor, is well known for his contemporary marble and bronze sculptures of the human form.
1 portrait in the collection
Sister Mary Brady OP (1922-2014), born in Tamworth, is a self-taught painter, though she did receive critiques from Joshua Smith and Norman Carter.
1 portrait in the collection
Natasha Gadd is an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator based in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection